Are you ready for AWR?

The Agency Workers Regulations 2010 will come into force on 1st October 2011. Is your business ready? What effect could it have on your business? What will be the extra cost burden?

These Regulations apply as much to hiring companies as they do to the supplying agency and it is therefore imperative that users of agency staff understand and are fully prepared for them. This seminar focuses on demystifying the new regulations and will help you plan your own response to the changes and talk to other businesses facing similar uncertainties..

The Regulations gives agency workers the right to the same pay and other working conditions as are enjoyed by a hirer’s own workers. The rights come into effect in two tranches, “day one rights” and after a period of 12 weeks on assignment. There are also enhanced rights for pregnant agency workers.

Our objective for the seminar is to identify the pitfalls as much as point out the right way to proceed, taking into account all the available information. To reserve your place Register & Pay today!

Speaker: Paul Chamberlain, Partner & Head of Employment at Brabners Chaffe Street Solicitors.

Paul has specialist expertise in the law relating to recruitment agencies and is the appointed employment law adviser to TEAM (The Employment Agents' Movement) and ALP (the Association of Labour Providers). Paul was instrumental in the firm's appointment to the RECs (Recruitment and Employment Confederation) legal panel and the Agency Workers' Commission.

Paul also deals regularly with restrictive covenant cases and frequently appears as an advocate before Employment Tribunals.

The seminar will address key areas such as:

• Background to the Regulations
• What are the Agency Worker Regulations?
• Who is an agency worker for the purposes of the Regulations?
• What is a temporary work agency for the purposes of the Regulations?
• When does an agency worker qualify for equal treatment?
• What does “equal treatment” mean?
• What are “day one” rights?
• Who is liable for establishing equal treatment?
• What do the rules say about pregnant agency workers?
• Are there legitimate ways to derogate from the Regulations?
• Anti-avoidance measure
• Current case studies
• What are the financial penalties for breach of the Regulations?
• Next steps

Find out what the latest government draft guidelines on the Regulations mean to your business.

This is your chance to ask an employment lawyer any questions you may have regarding the Regulations.

Agenda

	Morning Session
09:00	Registration & refreshments
09:30	Welcome and introductions	Adrian Hobbs - FlexPlus MD
09:35	Agency Workers Regulations (break for refreshments at 10:35)	Paul Chamberlain - Partner and Head of Employment at Brabners Chaffe Street Solicitors
12:30	Lunch

The last date for registering for this seminar is the 23rd May!